The Romneybot Reboot Goes On

It looks very much like the Romneybot 2.0, sputtering and tossing tiny gears and smoking from every vent, is likely to put away Rick Santorum next week in Wisconsin — and have I mentioned recently what a colossal dick Santorum is? — and it's spewing money in all directions in order to do so. It just picked up the endorsement of George H.W. Bush, which would be significant if this were 1981, but it also has been taking money from the guy behind putting all that pink slime in our nation's burgers, so I guess you'd have to say that the Romneybot got a push this week among the endorsements from people involved with dead meat.

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As part of the extended coup de grace, the Romneybot has chosen a series of issues with which to put Santorum away. It is running ads up and down the dial in Wisconsin attacking Santorum for having voted to raise the nation's debt ceiling, and for voting against a right-to-work law. Now, if Willard Romney hadn't put his vestigial conscience in a Mason jar five years ago, he might be bothered by doing this, since I can state flatly that he didn't run as a right-to-work governor in Massachusetts, and since voting to raise the debt ceiling was a de rigeur part of being a member of Congress in the years before the Republican party went completely batshit crazy. Exactly when does Willard Romney believe we should have let the country default? 1992? 1997? The Etch-A-Sketch has a lot of work to do.